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MARC Record from Ithaca College Library

Record ID marc_ithaca_college/ic_marc.mrc:225615706:1617
Source Ithaca College Library
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050 00 $aE169.Z83$bJ33 2008
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100 1 $aJacoby, Susan,$d1945-
245 14 $aThe age of American unreason /$cSusan Jacoby.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPantheon Books,$cc2008.
300 $axx, 356 p. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe way we live now : just us folks -- The way we lived then : intellect and ignorance in a young nation -- Social pseudoscience in the morning of America's culture wars -- Reds, pinkos, fellow travelers -- Middlebrow culture from noon to twilight -- Blaming it on the sixties -- Legacies : youth culture and celebrity culture -- The new old-time religion -- Junk thought -- The culture of distraction -- Public life : defining dumbness downward -- Conclusion: Cultural conservation.
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650 0 $aPopular culture$zUnited States.
650 0 $aReason$xSocial aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aSocial values$zUnited States.
650 0 $aSocial psychology$zUnited States.
650 0 $aNational characteristics, American.
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